ArticlePreventive medicine reports2020
Effects of physical activity recommendations on mindset, behavior and perceived health.
Article in Preventive medicine reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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- Effects of Wearable Fitness Trackers and Activity Adequacy Mindsets on Affect, Behavior, and Health: Longitudinal Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Trial
- Physical Activity and Mental Well-Being Among University Students: The Role of Beliefs in the Mental Health Benefits of Physical Activity.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Assessing the feasibility of using smartphone data to identify risk of idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension.NPJ cardiovascular health · 2026Article
- The secret life of all-or-nothing thinking with exercise: new insights into an overlooked barrier.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Connecting women who are diagnosed and treated for breast cancer to engage in physical activity: a two-arm randomized controlled trial.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Medicine plus mindset: A mixed-methods evaluation of a novel mindset-focused training for primary care teams.Patient education and counseling · 2024Article
- Enhancing mental well-being of undergraduates: establishing cut-off values and analyzing substitutive effects of physical activity on depression regulation.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- The Motivation MAP: an exercise-message framework to foster positive affect, challenge all-or-nothing thinking, and prioritize self-care.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Study on the Mechanism of Influencing Adolescents' Willingness to Participate in Ice Sports.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Leveraging Mobile Technology for Public Health Promotion: A Multidisciplinary Perspective.Annual review of public health · 2023Review
- Device-measured physical activity and sedentary time in a national sample of Luxembourg residents: the ORISCAV-LUX 2 study.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2022Observational
- Association between Educational Level and Physical Activity in Chronic Disease Patients of Eastern Slovakia.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Everything counts in sending the right message: science-based messaging implications from the 2020 WHO guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2020Article
- Benefits of Physical Activity and Its Associations with Resilience, Emotional Intelligence, and Psychological Distress in University Students from Southern Spain.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Designing Ambient Narrative-Based Interfaces to Reflect and Motivate Physical Activity.Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems. CHI Conference · 2020Article
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Abstract
This research sought to understand if physical activity recommendations--an integral component of many interventions aiming to promote physical activity--may have unexpected effects on individuals' mindsets (in this case about the adequacy and health consequences of their physical activity) that can strengthen or weaken recommendation effectiveness. Participants were students and staff at a U.S. West Coast private university, recruited between 2016 and 2019. Two experiments with one-week follow-up periods investigated the effects of viewing recommendations that prescribe a lower (vs. higher) amount of physical activity and provide a liberal (vs. stringent) definition of what counts as physical activity on individuals' mindsets about the adequacy and health consequences of their physical activity, as well as physical activity-related self-efficacy, physical activity behavior, and perceived health. Study 1 (
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